Peach Fuzz Dahlia
We chose to grow Peach Fuzz Dahlias for their fun blooms and pale orange color. The center of each flower is a dark tangerine and they fade to a light orange peach color. This flower is a semi cactus style and we enjoy it for the fun texture it adds to the garden and the vase. Some blooms have weaker stems, but on the whole we find this flower works well in the vase. We have paired it with Cafe Au Lait and Holly Hill Black Beauty for a really striking bouquet. We have even tried over wintering this variety in the wet soggy soils of the Oregon Coast and were pleased to find it came back with vigor. We often plant more than one of this variety. As for tuber production in the fall, this variety is prolific and you are hard pressed to get to the stalk and divide. We often sacrifice a few tubers and start be splitting the mass in half. The tubers can be on the larger side at roughly 3-4 inch ovals.
Peach Fuzz was one of our original 30 dahlias and has a nice soft orange we appreciate in the garden. We love the density of blooms this plant makes and have fun adding it to all sorts of vases. We even managed to over winter some Peach Fuzz tubers in the wet Marine environment and the plant that came back was even bigger and produced insane numbers of blooms. Its a fabulous addition to the garden.
Attributes of Peach Fuzz Dahlias
Height – 4 feet
Color – Peachy Orange
Bloom Size – 3-4″
Bloom Style – Semicactus
Bloom Time – ~75 days
